10 week old naps...help!

[FreiasBathtub]

Yes, it's another nap thread!

DS is 10 weeks old and in the last couple of weeks he has gone from at least one solid 2-3 hour daytime nap per day to 30 minute catnaps. He is still tired when he wakes but refuses to go back to sleep. Won't sleep on me, won't sleep in the pram, won't sleep in his cot. Have tried cuddling back to sleep, feeding back to sleep, rocking, shhh pat. None of it is working (feeding and pram used to).

Night is really variable, we were getting 5-6 hour stretches but now back to 3 hours at a time.

It is INCREDIBLY frustrating and I just can't understand it. It's not a growth spurt, it's not a wonder week, it's not the 4 month sleep regression. What is going on and, more importantly, can I fix it or do I just have to ride it out?

DD is 4 and was always a pretty decent sleeper so I have no experience to fall back on, I don't remember her doing this at this age.

Help!

30 minutes is apparently around the time they drift from a light sleep to a deep sleep, and they start to stir before they go in to the deep sleep.
My DS was a 30 minute cat napper from birth, i could set my alarm by him.
I was advised to go and pick him up to cuddle him / make sure he had comforters / turn Ewan the sheep on, just before that half hour mark, to try and help them transition in to that deeper sleep.
Hope it helps. I know how frustrating 30 minutes can be!

Thanks for the reply @SPR1107! We've tried all of those except white noise, I'll give that a go. I just don't understand why he's suddenly gone so far backwards. I know that baby sleep changes all the time, and not always for the better, but I had really come to depend on those solid naps for some downtime and I am struggling with losing them.